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On many a [[True Crime]] show (e.g. ''[[The First 48]]'') and "help us solve crime X" programs (e.g. ''[[Americas Most Wanted]]'', ''[[Crimewatch UK]]'') or even on the [[News Broadcast|National or Local News]] real crimes are acted out on screen for the viewer. Either by actors or by the actual victims with the perpetrators played by actors.
This is to help the viewer visualize the situation which might be otherwise tricky if there are a lot of details to take in in a relatively short amount of time. It can also just be used as filler in some shows. Sometimes these aren't the most tasteful things in the world in the cases of unsolved crimes. They retell the story melodramatically but in a way that prompts the viewer to enjoy the thrill of the gruesome crime and the knowledge that the culprit is still free. [[But It Really Happened!]], and that's the point.
While crimes are by far the most common thing to be given this treatment they aren't the only thing. Accidents may be dramatized this way, especially on "heroes of the emergency services" shows like the now defunct UK show ''999''. Historical events like battles often get this treatment in documentaries too.
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* Parodied in ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'', where Stone Age people are trying to reconstruct a murder in which someone was hit with a rock. The reconstruction involves hitting one of the "police" with a rock. This kills them, prompting one of the others to say "good reconstruction".
* Gus Hedges takes over the directing of one of these in ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey (TV)|Drop the Dead Donkey]]'' for a new true crime slot in direct competition with ''Crimewatch'' - with predictable, over-the-top sensationalist results. However {{spoiler|the crime is solved before the segment can be aired}} and {{spoiler|the actual segment airs footage of George busting up a petrol station supermarket after his colleagues split him up from Anna}}.
* Played for laughs (Just like everything else) in an episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]''. The gun they're using to reenact the killing is loaded, so the forensics team takes a lot of casualties as they try to reproduce the conditions in which the murder took place.
== Western Animation ==
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